Broadband suggestion - Lee Road

Spazdarn · 04-01-2019 02:19AM #1

Hi all,

Moving to a new apartment in the next month or so. I've shopped around and Virgin which I currently have doesn't appear to be available in my area. Anyone from the area have any experience with the other companies, and what kind of consistent coverage / speeds do you get?

Thanks in advance

Nonoperational · 04-01-2019 06:09PM

Depends what's available. Is there an Eir phone line?

namloc1980 · 04-01-2019 09:30PM

Spazdarn wrote: »

Hi all,

Moving to a new apartment in the next month or so. I've shopped around and Virgin which I currently have doesn't appear to be available in my area. Anyone from the area have any experience with the other companies, and what kind of consistent coverage / speeds do you get?

Thanks in advance

Try bonkers.ie or switcher.ie and put in the exact address. Should give you a list of what's available.

Spazdarn · 05-01-2019 03:44AM

Nonoperational wrote: »

Depends what's available. Is there an Eir phone line?

Yeah there's a phoneline available alright.

Slim Charles · 05-01-2019 06:39PM

Spazdarn wrote: »

Hi all,

Moving to a new apartment in the next month or so. I've shopped around and Virgin which I currently have doesn't appear to be available in my area. Anyone from the area have any experience with the other companies, and what kind of consistent coverage / speeds do you get?

Thanks in advance

I assume you're moving to either river towers or Atkins hall, we are in RT and our sky broadband is average. No fibre available but it's still far slower than it should be...HOWEVER if all you need it for is streaming netflix and such then you'll be fine.

Spazdarn · 06-01-2019 02:45AM

Slim Charles wrote: »

I assume you're moving to either river towers or Atkins hall, we are in RT and our sky broadband is average. No fibre available but it's still far slower than it should be...HOWEVER if all you need it for is streaming netflix and such then you'll be fine.

Yeah moving into RT. Pretty sure I'll likely get Sky considering I'll already be getting the TV package off them but considering there's no Fibre up there I imagine all the alternatives are going to be similar speeds.

I do download quite a bit and need it for working remotely.

What kind of speeds do you get?

Slim Charles · 06-01-2019 09:17AM

Spazdarn wrote: »

Yeah moving into RT. Pretty sure I'll likely get Sky considering I'll already be getting the TV package off them but considering there's no Fibre up there I imagine all the alternatives are going to be similar speeds.

I do download quite a bit and need it for working remotely.

What kind of speeds do you get?

I'll check for you some stage this morning.

Big Eejit · 06-01-2019 07:03PM

Slim Charles wrote: »

I'll check for you some stage this morning.

I lived there in RT for 15 years or so. Any BB company will provide standard DSL (I had Digiweb - the hangover ftom Smart Telecom tgat I originally had). You can expect about 10 megs (from Dennehys Cross Exchange).

Btw there’s no fibre box on Lee Road because apparently the residents of Lee Vista, where the telecoms box is located, wouldn’t allow the Eircom cowboy contractors in without knowing exactly what they planned to do.

Spazdarn · 06-01-2019 08:30PM

Big Eejit wrote: »

I lived there in RT for 15 years or so. Any BB company will provide standard DSL (I had Digiweb - the hangover ftom Smart Telecom tgat I originally had). You can expect about 10 megs (from Dennehys Cross Exchange).

Btw there’s no fibre box on Lee Road because apparently the residents of Lee Vista, where the telecoms box is located, wouldn’t allow the Eircom cowboy contractors in without knowing exactly what they planned to do.

So it looks like it won't be coming in the near future either. That's a balls

Slim Charles · 07-01-2019 08:17AM

Sorry forgot to do this, will definitely run speedtest this evening when I'm home, I think download can be as high as 9 or 10 in quiet timesbut as low as 4 or 5 during evenings. Upload speeds are pitiful - less than 1mb.

Slim Charles · 07-01-2019 08:03PM

Spazdarn wrote: »

So it looks like it won't be coming in the near future either. That's a balls

Ping 104ms
Download 10.11mbps
Upload 0.83mbps

We're on the fourth floor and from looking at available networks, there's two eircome and two vodafone near us

Spazdarn · 07-01-2019 09:26PM

Cheers lads

who_me · 08-01-2019 04:43PM

It's pricey for what you're getting, but you could try satellite broadband. (See here ). Up to 50Mbps down/6Mbps up.

9726_9726 · 08-01-2019 07:51PM

who_me wrote: »

It's pricey for what you're getting, but you could try satellite broadband. (See here ). Up to 50Mbps down/6Mbps up.

OP is moving into an apartment. Satellite broadband dishes are huge (about 1.2m) and wouldn't be allowed in apartments. Also, OP downloads a lot and works from home.

With a tiny 100GB monthly data and huge latency that satellite brings, neither would be doable.

Poulgorm · 12-01-2019 07:00PM

If you insert your Eircode into the following link, it will tell you what your options are:

https://www.airwire.ie/index.php/avail

Broadband suggestion - Lee Road

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